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THE KOREAN OPEN LETTER PAGE 16
KOREA IS NO ENEMY
DECEMBER 10, 1945.
Korea, one of Japan's earliest victims, is still being treated
as an enemy country.
Our initial mistake, of telling the Koreans to obey the occupying
Jap forces, has been rectified.
But Korea is still divided into two air-tight zones, with American forces in the south and Russians in the north. There is no
interchange of any sort betv/een the two zones.
The. arrangement is more rigid than that applied to Germany.
There, at least, an Allied Control Council attempts to co-ordinate
actions i# the different zones.
The Koreans have had, it is true, little political experience.
The Japs established a "protectorate" over Korea in 1905 and formally annexed it in 1910.
They are now learning Russian- Communist ideas in the north/ and
presumably American democratic ideas in the south.
That seems like a possible invitation to civil war when the
troops eventually depart.
CAMDEN, N.J. POST NOVEMBER 12, 1945.
KOREA'S EMANCIPATION
Among the changes wrought by the war, proba,bly none is more
dramatic or significant than the emancipation of Korea.. Today the
world is witnessing a Jap exodus in Korea that makes up one of the
most dramatic episodes of the war. This exodus is strikingly
different from the Jap invasion of Korea that took place 40 years age,
At that time arrogant Jap business and government administrators
flocked into Korea to avail themselves of the fruits of conquest.
For 40 years they stayed there, reaping the harvest of Jap domination. It has been estimated that at the time of the Ja.p surrender,
not less than 450,000 Japs v/ere in the American occupied zone in
Korea alone. Of this number, more than 100,000 have already been
evacuated to .Japan. These eta,cuees-have none of the arrogance tha.t,
characterized the Jap invaders. They:have been reduced to ,the
status of coolies, and are herded together without distinction as
they move dov/n to the tip of Korea to be ferried across to the Jap
mainland.
The Koreans watch this exodus as a sign cf their long-dreamed
:pf liberation. For 40 years Jap rule has been to them a shadow of
terrorism and slavery, but through those years the spirit of a
free people has not died be most of the time, they clung to their
vision of independence. The great day came at Cairo v/hen the three
Allied leaders—Roosevelt, Churchill, and Chiang Kai-shek—made the
independence of Korea one of the objectives of the v/ar.
The conditions under which this independence is to be provided
have not yet been determined. Moreover, Korea faces a difficult
problem due to the division of the country into two occupation zones,
With Russia in ,control in the north and the United States in the
however, that when the final settlement comes,
be united under a system of self-government
opportunity to work out their destiny in
south. No one doubts,
the Korean people will
that gives to them the
their own way. «■
MANCHESTER, N.H. UNION:-.- / NOVEMBER 9, 1945.
MODERN "INDEPENDENCE"
One of the tragic aspects of this era, of v/orld wars is that
peoples no longer v/in their independence by their ov/n efforts, and
therefore do not really have it. Korea is currently an example
of that.
The Koreans were so overshadowed by the military might of Japan
that they had no hope of striking successfully for freedom, and therefore didn't try. Their freedom has come as a result of the efforts
of the United States and other nations. Now Russia is occupying
the northern and richer half of Korea and the United States the
southern half. This results in division of the country's economy and
militates against the establishment of a government.
The Koreans are quite unhappy about it. Their "independence" is
not the type they had envisioned. There are other countries in the
same predicament. Poland is one of them.

THE KOREAN OPEN LETTER PAGE 16
KOREA IS NO ENEMY
DECEMBER 10, 1945.
Korea, one of Japan's earliest victims, is still being treated
as an enemy country.
Our initial mistake, of telling the Koreans to obey the occupying
Jap forces, has been rectified.
But Korea is still divided into two air-tight zones, with American forces in the south and Russians in the north. There is no
interchange of any sort betv/een the two zones.
The. arrangement is more rigid than that applied to Germany.
There, at least, an Allied Control Council attempts to co-ordinate
actions i# the different zones.
The Koreans have had, it is true, little political experience.
The Japs established a "protectorate" over Korea in 1905 and formally annexed it in 1910.
They are now learning Russian- Communist ideas in the north/ and
presumably American democratic ideas in the south.
That seems like a possible invitation to civil war when the
troops eventually depart.
CAMDEN, N.J. POST NOVEMBER 12, 1945.
KOREA'S EMANCIPATION
Among the changes wrought by the war, proba,bly none is more
dramatic or significant than the emancipation of Korea.. Today the
world is witnessing a Jap exodus in Korea that makes up one of the
most dramatic episodes of the war. This exodus is strikingly
different from the Jap invasion of Korea that took place 40 years age,
At that time arrogant Jap business and government administrators
flocked into Korea to avail themselves of the fruits of conquest.
For 40 years they stayed there, reaping the harvest of Jap domination. It has been estimated that at the time of the Ja.p surrender,
not less than 450,000 Japs v/ere in the American occupied zone in
Korea alone. Of this number, more than 100,000 have already been
evacuated to .Japan. These eta,cuees-have none of the arrogance tha.t,
characterized the Jap invaders. They:have been reduced to ,the
status of coolies, and are herded together without distinction as
they move dov/n to the tip of Korea to be ferried across to the Jap
mainland.
The Koreans watch this exodus as a sign cf their long-dreamed
:pf liberation. For 40 years Jap rule has been to them a shadow of
terrorism and slavery, but through those years the spirit of a
free people has not died be most of the time, they clung to their
vision of independence. The great day came at Cairo v/hen the three
Allied leaders—Roosevelt, Churchill, and Chiang Kai-shek—made the
independence of Korea one of the objectives of the v/ar.
The conditions under which this independence is to be provided
have not yet been determined. Moreover, Korea faces a difficult
problem due to the division of the country into two occupation zones,
With Russia in ,control in the north and the United States in the
however, that when the final settlement comes,
be united under a system of self-government
opportunity to work out their destiny in
south. No one doubts,
the Korean people will
that gives to them the
their own way. «■
MANCHESTER, N.H. UNION:-.- / NOVEMBER 9, 1945.
MODERN "INDEPENDENCE"
One of the tragic aspects of this era, of v/orld wars is that
peoples no longer v/in their independence by their ov/n efforts, and
therefore do not really have it. Korea is currently an example
of that.
The Koreans were so overshadowed by the military might of Japan
that they had no hope of striking successfully for freedom, and therefore didn't try. Their freedom has come as a result of the efforts
of the United States and other nations. Now Russia is occupying
the northern and richer half of Korea and the United States the
southern half. This results in division of the country's economy and
militates against the establishment of a government.
The Koreans are quite unhappy about it. Their "independence" is
not the type they had envisioned. There are other countries in the
same predicament. Poland is one of them.